Ugobe's Pleo Dinosaur - The Christmas Gift of 2007?

It is time for a new toy, a toy that is likely to be theThe main visual input comes from a color-camera
christmas gift of 2007. The webkinz craze is going onthat allows the toy to track objects and it also has
and the webkinz has made everyone wanting aan infrared device that helps it recognize different
virtual pet. Now it is time for a robot pet, a webkinzpeople and objects.
that moves outside the virtual world and into the realThe main audio input is two microphones allowing
world. Ugobe's Pleo Dinosaur is here.stereophonic hearing and it responds to direction of
In this article you'll learn more about this new toy andsounds and a sudden loud sound might startle it.
it features.Integrated in the skin of the dinosaur there are
Ugobe's Pleo Dinosaur is a highly technological toy. Itseveral devices that detects when it is touched and
is delivered as a one week old dinosaur and it knowshow it is touched. If the toy is handled roughly it will
nothing about the world it is about to enter. This dinoshut down to protect the advanced electronics.
only knows how to move and how to learn, just likePleo has two 32-bit microprocessors for central and
a real puppy. After you have played with it forimage processing, and four 8-bit sub-processors for
awhile, it learns new things. It responds to your tonemotor control. This robotic life form also has multiple
of voice and it responds to the way you touch it. Itbuilt-in data ports, including a mini USB port for online
develops 'emotions' and it gets happy and it gets sad.downloads, an SD card slot for Pleo add-ons, and the
The Pleo Dinosaur is powered by a operating systeminfrared transceiver that allows Pleo-to-Pleo
that connects a lot of different input systems into acommunications.
network and it has an amazing artificial intelligenceIf the batteries are getting weaker so is Pleo and
system that learns from different experiences.you will know that it is time to recharge him!